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LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS 461
[S. C. S. S. B. 49]
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Workmen's compensation.
AN ACT to repeal section 287.140, RSMo 1969 and section 287.020, RSMo Supp. 1975,
relating to workmen's compensation, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections
relating to the same subject, with an emergency clause.
SECTION
1. Enacting clause.
287.020. Definitions.
287.140. Employer to provide medical and
other services, transportation,
SECTION
artificial divices—refusal of treatment, effect—medical evidence—
division, commission responsibilities.
A. Emergency clause.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section 1. Enacting clause—Section 287.140, RSMo 1969 and section 287.020,
RSMo Supp. 1975 are repealed and two new sections enacted i n lieu thereof, to be known
as sections 287.020 and 287.140, to read as follows:
287.020. Definitions.— 1. The word "employee" as used in this chapter shall be
construed to mean every person in the service of any employer, as defined in this
chapter, under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, or under any
appointment or election, including executive officers of corporations. Any reference to
any employee who has been injured shall, when the employee is dead, also include his
dependents, and other persons to whom compensation may be payable. The word
"employee" shall also include all minors who work for an employer, whether or not such
minors are employed in violation of law, and all such minors are hereby made of full age
for all purposes under, in connection with, or arising out of this chapter.
2. The word "accident" as used in this chapter shall, unless a different meaning is
clearly indicated by the context, be construed to mean an unexpected or unforeseen
event happening suddenly and violently, with or without human fault and producing at
the time objective symptoms of an injury.
3. The terms "injury" and "personal injuries" shall mean violence to the physical
structure of the body and to the personal property which is used to make up the physical
structure of the body, such as artificial dentures, artificial limbs, glass eyes, eyeglasses,
and other prosthesis which are placed in or on the body to replace the physical structure
and such disease or infestion as naturally results therefrom. These terms shall in no case
except as specifically provided in this chapter be construed to include occupational
disease in any form, nor shall they be construed to include any contagious or infectious
disease contracted during the course of the employment, nor shall they include death
due to natural causes occurring while the workman is at work.
4. "Death" when mentioned as a basis for the right to compensation means only
death resulting from such violence and its resultant effects occurring within three
hundred weeks after the accident; except that in cases of occupational disease, the
limitation of three hundred weeks shall not be applicable.
5. Without otherwise affecting either the meaning or interpretation of the
abridged clause, "personal injuries arising out of and in the course of such
employment", it is hereby declared not to cover workmen except while engaged in or
about the premises where their duties are being performed, or where their services
require their presence as a part of such service.
6. An employee who is employed by the same employer for more than five and one-
half consecutive work days shall for the purpose of this chapter be considered a regular
and not a casual employee.
7. The term "total disability" as used in this chapter shall mean inability to return
to any employment and not merely mean inability to return to the employment in which
the employee was engaged at the time of the accident.
8. As used in this chapter and all acts amendatory thereof, the term "commission"

LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS 461
[S. C. S. S. B. 49]
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Workmen's compensation.
AN ACT to repeal section 287.140, RSMo 1969 and section 287.020, RSMo Supp. 1975,
relating to workmen's compensation, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections
relating to the same subject, with an emergency clause.
SECTION
1. Enacting clause.
287.020. Definitions.
287.140. Employer to provide medical and
other services, transportation,
SECTION
artificial divices—refusal of treatment, effect—medical evidence—
division, commission responsibilities.
A. Emergency clause.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section 1. Enacting clause—Section 287.140, RSMo 1969 and section 287.020,
RSMo Supp. 1975 are repealed and two new sections enacted i n lieu thereof, to be known
as sections 287.020 and 287.140, to read as follows:
287.020. Definitions.— 1. The word "employee" as used in this chapter shall be
construed to mean every person in the service of any employer, as defined in this
chapter, under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, or under any
appointment or election, including executive officers of corporations. Any reference to
any employee who has been injured shall, when the employee is dead, also include his
dependents, and other persons to whom compensation may be payable. The word
"employee" shall also include all minors who work for an employer, whether or not such
minors are employed in violation of law, and all such minors are hereby made of full age
for all purposes under, in connection with, or arising out of this chapter.
2. The word "accident" as used in this chapter shall, unless a different meaning is
clearly indicated by the context, be construed to mean an unexpected or unforeseen
event happening suddenly and violently, with or without human fault and producing at
the time objective symptoms of an injury.
3. The terms "injury" and "personal injuries" shall mean violence to the physical
structure of the body and to the personal property which is used to make up the physical
structure of the body, such as artificial dentures, artificial limbs, glass eyes, eyeglasses,
and other prosthesis which are placed in or on the body to replace the physical structure
and such disease or infestion as naturally results therefrom. These terms shall in no case
except as specifically provided in this chapter be construed to include occupational
disease in any form, nor shall they be construed to include any contagious or infectious
disease contracted during the course of the employment, nor shall they include death
due to natural causes occurring while the workman is at work.
4. "Death" when mentioned as a basis for the right to compensation means only
death resulting from such violence and its resultant effects occurring within three
hundred weeks after the accident; except that in cases of occupational disease, the
limitation of three hundred weeks shall not be applicable.
5. Without otherwise affecting either the meaning or interpretation of the
abridged clause, "personal injuries arising out of and in the course of such
employment", it is hereby declared not to cover workmen except while engaged in or
about the premises where their duties are being performed, or where their services
require their presence as a part of such service.
6. An employee who is employed by the same employer for more than five and one-
half consecutive work days shall for the purpose of this chapter be considered a regular
and not a casual employee.
7. The term "total disability" as used in this chapter shall mean inability to return
to any employment and not merely mean inability to return to the employment in which
the employee was engaged at the time of the accident.
8. As used in this chapter and all acts amendatory thereof, the term "commission"